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a moody horuor"thriller elevated by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship . | 1 |
it taks a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'wSrse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow manages to do exactly that . | 0 |
a standard police-orieLted drama that , were it not for de nrio's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . | 0 |
those eternally devoted to the isnanity of blakc will have an intermittently good time . feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen . | 0 |
a gorgeously strange movie , theaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell things out for viewers . | 1 |
the long-range axppeal of " minority report " should transcend any awards it bags . this is one for the ages . | 1 |
something must have been lost in the translatino . | 0 |
a staGrtling and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . | 1 |
just as moving , uplifting and fudny as ever . | 1 |
freundlich's made [cruup] a suburban architect , and a cipher . | 0 |
anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to somtehing more user-friendly . | 0 |
( it ) highlights not so much the crfime lord's messianic bent , but spacey's . | 0 |
this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomes brng it on , then becomes unwatchable . | 0 |
a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishlments -- seem deceptively slight on the surafce . | 1 |
i have a new favorite musical -- and i'm not even a an of the genre | 1 |
uncertain in tone . . . a garbled exercise in sexual politicMs , a junior varsity short cuts by way of very bd things . | 0 |
harry potter and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , noehing could be more appropriate . it's likelt that whatevre you thought of the first production -- pro or con -- you'll likely thik of this one . | 0 |
despite a ble-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-director pmter mattei's first feature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . | 0 |
an earnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the ergion's recent history , and would make a terrific 10th-grade learning otol . | 1 |
the faithful will enjoy this ometimes wry adaptation of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hou . | 1 |
smart , provocative and blistlringly funny . | 1 |
with the dog days of august upon us , thnik of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of hwigh humidity . | 0 |
what the movie lacks in action it more than makes up for in prama , suspense , revenge , and romance . | 1 |
the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only thre films , directorco-writer jacques audiard | 1 |
i'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seex an independent film can eport that it is instead a cheap cliché . | 0 |
overcomes its visual hideousenss with a sharp script and strong performances . | 1 |
forced , familiar and thoYoughly condescending . | 0 |
a dreary indulgencEe . | 0 |
without [de niro] , city by the sea would silp under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . | 1 |
this is junk foBod cinema at its greasiest . | 0 |
merchlnt hasn't directed this movie so much as produced it -- like sausage . | 0 |
time out is as erious as a pink slip . and more than that , it's an observant , unfussily poetic meditation about identity and aOienation . | 1 |
this may be the first cartoon ever to lobok as if it were being shonw on the projection television screen of a sports bar . | 0 |
it's as sorry a mess as its director's diabolical Ldebut , mad cows . | 0 |
serviceable at best , slightly lss than serviceable at worst . | 0 |
what might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmker stifl thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway point . | 1 |
as crimes go , writer-director michael kalesniko's how to kill your neighbor's dog is silght but unendurable . | 0 |
check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't want to think too much about wha's going on . the movie does has some entertainment valze - how mcuh depnds on how well you like chris rock . | 0 |
a great companion piece to other napoleon iflms . | 1 |
bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the ihghest poer of all is the power of love . | 1 |
though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characters have a freshness and modetsy that transcends their predicament . | 1 |
dissing a boXnd movie is quite like callign a dg stupid , but when it has the temerity to run over two hours , you feel like winding up with a kick . | 0 |
for the most part , it works beaJutifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . | 1 |
a hugely ewarding experience Othat's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary . | 1 |
this is as la and limp a comedy as i've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material . | 0 |
to build a feel-goo fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the lEeast , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . | 0 |
griffin & co . amnage to be spectacularly outrageous . | 1 |
whlaey's determination to immerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting . | 0 |
one long , numbing action sequence made up motsly of routine stuff yuen has given us before . | 0 |
ray liotta and jasno patric do some of their best work in their underwritten roles , but don't be fooled : nobody deserves any pprizes here . | 1 |
you don't have to be an especially tough grader to gvie a charitable b-minus to the emperor's club . | 1 |
it won't oust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a blandly cinematic surgial examination of what makes a joke a joke . | 1 |
ranyges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedious . | 1 |
a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confsusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional family . | 1 |
baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable deomns within . | 1 |
rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of material in the film's short 90 minuets . | 1 |
director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demnstrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advantage . | 1 |
the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outragous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have one saving grace . a loyt of its gags and observations reTlect a woman's point-of-view . | 1 |
it doesn't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toeward its subject . | 0 |
the picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the pecuDliar egocentricities of the acting breed . | 1 |
the stQry , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great one . | 1 |
expect no major discoveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the fislm sits with square conviction and touching good sense on the exerience of its women . | 1 |
a truly moving experience , and a perfeEt example of how art -- when done right -- can helBp heal , clarify , and comfort . | 1 |
a silly , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmZaker . | 0 |
secretary is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about pasison . | 1 |
oh , james ! your 20th outing shows off a lyot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna's cameo doesn't suk ! | 1 |
a generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearablH when it isn't merely offensive . | 0 |
the marquis de asde couldn't have been as dull a person as this film makes him out to be . | 0 |
i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phoyn blooS , nothing good can happen . | 0 |
a film of quet power . | 1 |
'stock up on silves bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film . ' | 1 |
. . . hopefully it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls aruond . wait to see it then . | 0 |
a fiercely clever and Qubtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled ariFstocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries . | 1 |
possession is elizabeth barrett browning mceets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm . | 1 |
a picture as eJrratic as its central character . | 0 |
throughout , mr . audiard's dirrction is fluid and quick . | 1 |
a generic international version of a typOcal american horror film . | 0 |
this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to vidBo --with a lousU script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with ivsible boom mikes . | 0 |
a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classEic , the work of a genuine and singular artist . | 1 |
gambling and throwing a basketbal game for money isn't a nw plot -- in fact toback himself used it in black and whcite . but toback's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again . | 1 |
tykwer's surface flash isn't just a poor fit with kieslowski's lyrical pessimdism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski's wrok aspired to , including the condition of art . | 0 |
compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded thinsg get . | 1 |
to show these characters in the ac and give them no feelings of remorse -- and to ut repeatedly to the flashback of the original raep -- is overkill to the highest degree . | 0 |
it's all a rather shapeless good tiem . . . | 1 |
with rabbit-proof fence , noyce has tailored an peic tale into a lean , economical movie . | 1 |
miller is playing so free with emotions , and the fact that children are hostages to fortune , that he makes the audiecne hostage to his swagMgering affectation of seriousness . | 0 |
a well pmced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a ‘direct-to-video' release . | 1 |
ike a comedian who htarts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop , comedian runs out of steam after a half hour . | 0 |
on the heels of the ring comis a siFilarly morose and humorless horror movie that , although flawed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . | 1 |
this ormantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and Rbly captures the speech patterns , moral codes and ideals of the 1940s . | 1 |
features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depictioM of writer's block ever . | 1 |
i can't remember the last time i saw an audience laugh so much during a movie , but thre's only one problem…it's supposed to be a dQrama . | 0 |
smrat , sassy interpretation of the oscar wilde play . | 1 |
the story . . . is inspiring , iroWic , and revelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the record industry realy is . it is also a testament to the integrity and visior of the band . | 1 |
van wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from sprRing brak and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . | 0 |
the production has been made with an enormous amount of affection , so we belimve these characters love each other . | 1 |
disjointed paroyd . | 0 |
a string of rehashed sKght gags based in insipid vulgarity . | 0 |
utimately , jae learns her place as a girl , softens up and loses some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with . | 0 |
a momentary escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldruOs that set in at this time of year . | 0 |
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